I was the same until last season...made me realise that top 5K finishes are not a given - also presented new challenges.

Just as you think it gets repetitive the game still has the ability to surprise you.

It would be more fun if players from top 6 teams were priced properly compared to players outside top 6.

I always do around this point to be honest. Think the chips made it even worse for me. The gw31 stuff is boring and so too is the dgw and blanks posts . Yet I've been playing so long it's part of my routine now

of the whole thing no, of the chips, yes

I think what's strange is that they were created to make things more interesting and fun, but the reality is that all they're doing is helping players get massive boosts during the 2 or 3 big weeks a season that serious players would have been aware of when it kicked off

I much preferred having to plan for doubles and blanks without chips, it's so boring now. I'm just sitting on then waiting to do the same thing as everyone else on here

I like the idea of chips, but would prefer if they weren't so favoured to being used in a blank or double week.

Probably depends on the reason you play the game?
Fun, Money Cash mini leagues, OR or just the love of the game..

For me I go all out for 2 cash mini leagues & worry bout Or when they are wrapped up

😆 😆
Buggu'd.

Feels very stagnant and not much differences all around with teams. Only interesting move coming up could be Arsenal players as they are fairly low owned.

Shame, but I have all my chips to play and not that confident I will make up much ground on rivals.

Yeah. Mostly because the league itself doesn't have much intrigue for me. Competition for top 4 spots and figuring out the three worst teams doesn't make up for a non-existent title race.

Someone posts this every season. You'd feel differently if you were in the top 2k or having the best season of your FPL career.

Chips do need some variety though - we need a chip that is somehow better to use outside of a DGW. I don't thlink the answer is duplicated chips for each half of the season; that just increases luck.

You only think that but i bet you still love the rush of match days.I just think this season is slightly a bit more boring because you have the top 5/6 teams and that is it, all the rest have have not given us much this season and those cheap gems that we love so well and make this game exciting are few and far between.

I remember last season around February/March i totally immersed in the game watching every game twice and started feeling fpl burnout and started thinking about retiring when the season was finished i am a sucker for punishment though and still playing though. 😉

It probably is getting boring as this time even more people have saved their chips for the end. FPL have spoon fed casuals to save it. Also add to that Salah who is making it even more boring now.

Imo agreed with the chips part but this season the stagnant captain choices, less differentials , templates working brilliant have been some issues that made 6-8 players same in each team that made it boring

Reported.

I always get bored after like the first 10 weeks. Teams become similar, players like Salah scoring becomes irrelevant, etc.

I'd say I'm becoming more interested in Sky game - its a good format plus you can actually win decent money in that. I do think the chips have ruined FPL a little bit

FPL is just a game, its just a format to enjoy. The enjoyment doesnt come from the game itself, it doesnt come from analysing stats, it doesnt come from a Arnautovic hattrick. The enjoyment comes, like with most things, from the chats you have with your mates, reliving your victories, commiserating your defeats and anticipating the next hit.

If the "mates" you discuss the game with are on here then I am not suprised that the game has lost its edge. This community has lost its edge. Why can we not have a discussion without needing to be at the peak of optimum? Why can we not enjoy sharing our weekend stories without being swamped by people accusing us of being sunshine players? Why can we not discuss the merits of Aleksander Kolarov with all sincerity?

Still get a kick out of matchdays - the up and downs of pts etc.
Wouldn't have an interest in Burnley-Everton this week if I didn't have an FPL player in it.
Not a fan of chips but I would change for them only to be allowed in a single GW. Too much of an inbalance with other GWs. Already a bonus having extra point opportunities from extra fixtures.
Not convinced there should be such a high ceiling reward for a DGW compared to the other 35/36 normal GWs.

You must be getting bored of getting decent ranks... some of us have never finished that high and that what's pushes us on. ☺

I’m not really bored of it but do feel a bit flat. The blanks and doubles, which were the main benefit of saving the chips for and having something to look forward to, has turned out anticlimactic. The league Cup final week normally gives at least 1 blank and then a surprise dgw after but nothing this year. I had planned for that since around gw24 and the results just didn’t work out. Then there was Pool not having any doubles at all. With them in red hot form and having no blanks or doubles, people with no chips or any idea of forward planning will just sail through anyway. I’m clinging onto the hope that having 14 doublers plus Salah for 34, a FH in 35 and then 11 doublers in 37 with a TC will give some sort of edge. In reality though, I just know that not much will gained because of how easy the fixtures have panned out and also worried that Firmino, for example will easily beat Vardy, despite 2 less games. It feels like getting XI out for free in 31 could possibly be the best form of getting an edge but the way last week went, it just shows that all the extra 2-3 players that I’d have over people with 8 or 9, will only get about 6 points anyway. I’m not even looking forwards to wildcarding, that feels like it could do more harm than good.

If you're getting bored, then try taking a sabbatical before coming back to it refreshed - or if you don't miss it then take up some other hobby.

Or play it differently, set different objectives, take more risks, try different strategies.

Like many here I'm not keen on the chips, but they are probably designed to keep the casuals interested rather than to appeal to the more serious players, and in that respect they have probably been fairly successful.

Each season is different and produces new challenges, but it is also helps to keep it interesting if you have some close rivalries, either in your mini-leagues or in the overall rankings - then you can concentrate more on the small differences and improvements rather than on the major similarities in order to make those marginal gains.

Most definitely.

To stay ahead of the pack, you really need to be a super nerd who stays up all night analysing things to death.

It would be nice if more women played the game.

Back to my golf.

I think chips are boring. They emphasise herd mentality to the extreme as everyone not only follows points but has the same plan 5 weeks out.

Agree. Something about this season has caused the game to lose a significant amount of luster for me. And I've been at it about 10 years as well and used to be much more engaged. If I were doing better, perhaps it would be different. Not much has worked out for me this season, and that gets old real fast. And the two-week breaks have just been too many for my liking.

It is boring now as since few seasons barring top 2-3 teams any team can be defeated by any other team due to rising quality coming with huge cash with all 20 teams. Before we used to have some top 8 teams like everton who would play consistently and lose only to top sides. Now have a look at relegation scrappers and any of bottom 8 can be relegated.
TLDR Highly Competitive EPL has been boon for football but malaise for fpl

Not personally, but if you are bored of it there are plenty more hobbies out there - you aren't forced to keep playing forever 🙂 I never thought I'd get bored of playing cricket, but I did.

Oh yeah. I'm spending less and less hours per week to check the latest news, articles and sorting my team out. I used to be so interested in this game but I'm not anymore. I'm just continuing playing because there's a few more gameweeks to go and I have all chips available. I seriously considered giving it a miss before this season started but decided against it in the end. Kinda regret it. It's definitely less enjoyable when luck isn't on your side and your moves rarely pay off.

I've come to the point where I don't care about my overall rank and how high will I finish. I'm not participating in any money leagues so my motivation is obviously lower than last year. Assisting community with pressers, some other infos and posts was the best thing I've done since I've made profile. It always felt good to help others.
Now I'm not even a regular poster anymore, more like a lurker and casual who is upvoting good banter between posters.

I feel like I'm stuck in limbo. Watching Arsenal struggling is also a big part of why I just want this season to end and move on to the next one. Better times are coming, hopefully.

Bewildeting lack of prizes worth a damn is embarrassing. Wish sombody would sponsor a few decent prizes.

Yes

Sounds like you need to switch your focus to Eliteserien

My seventh season playing FPL, I'm having a terrible season currently sitting 541,598. I'm a fully paid up member, look at stats, watch a lot of football, Like to pick 15 players who play regularly for their clubs. Try to minimise hits, stay away from picking injury prone players.
Played with couple of template players with differential ones, so I'm not following the herd. Just keep hitting red arrows.
Anyway the point I'm getting at, this is definitely the first season I've felt bored and fed up playing the game, obviously due to my rubbish rank. The amount of time I spend, I should be doing so much better.
Only positives I have to take forward until end, Still have my Wildcard, Free Hit, Triple Captain, Bench Boost all firmly in my back pocket. Playing my wildcard in Gameweek 32, going to different I will be thousands of miles away from here.
On holiday in Australia for four weeks. Good luck to all doing so well in such a strange season.

it's all Salah's fault 😉 I ignored him for ages (intentionally) in order to have differentials (Mane/Coutinho/Eriksen/Hazard) in the hope he wouldn't keep scoring - he did, obviously. I sold my soul and brought him in eventually.

Basically start the season with Salah instead of Mane or Coutinho, choose Sterling over Sane, swap Morata to Firmino before his hauls and you are practically uncatchable because those players keep scoring...zzz

Couldn't agree more. I've tuned out a lot between Salah(c) being an easy week by week choice and City dominating the league.

Hey guys! Has anyone played Ultimate Fantasy Premier League a couple of seasons ago? It had a membership (I think 5 pounds) but it had so many more interesting options. You could pick 25 players, then play 11 have 7 on the bench and 7 inactive. Then during the gw you could replace players from match day 1 that didn't perform well with players from the bench that were playing match day 2. Same with the captain. It had other different stuff too with the transfers etc. I think it was much more fun and interesting than for example the fpl draft game which is quite boring i must say and less competitive and less global. I really think that bringing back ufpl will be amazing. Or if normal fpl can get some of the elements of ufpl to make it more interesting and strategic. Especially now that the conversation opened on how to make fpl less boring and more interesting i suggest bring Ultimate Fantasy Premier League back!

Yes, yes it is. Boring and frustrating. Blame it on the spoonfed group-thinking masses

Absolutely. I feel like our focus is always on chips, and when to use them now - rather than focusing on picking football players. The game becomes more mathematical analysis than football-focused.

Analysis should be an optional extra to supplement the football game - voluntary work carried out when we want to find an edge in our mini-leagues - not a chore we have to do to keep up.

Chips are too obnoxious, they become this loud crying baby that is impossible to ignore, and takes away from the scenery. Either make them less obstructive by reducing their power, or get rid. Bring the focus back on the football, FPL!

I have found that head to head league can add excitement, no worry about OR use chips when you play potentially better players etc.
Forget about classic league at same time, hard to win both same time.

Agree the least few GW's have been boring. All teams converging to a template, and everyone captaining Salah, so impossible to climb the ranks.
Imho the single improvement that should be done to the game is to allow two transfers each GW, to make the teams more dynamic. But still only possible to roll over one transfer each GW.
Also, I'm questioning if not the selling fee is making teams more static.

I feel like that but I think it's out of bitterness that I'm not doing as well as I would like to be and my decisions are going against me.

If I use my chips well and rise up the ranks, I'm sure I'll love it again.

Doing pretty crap but last few seasons a bit meh